Version Superseded: 31/10/2003
Point in time view as at 02/12/1999. This version of this provision has been superseded.
There are currently no known outstanding effects for the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, Section 179.
The following Table shows provisions defining or otherwise explaining expressions used in this Part (other than provisions defining or explaining an expression used only in the same section)—
| account of profits and accounts (in Scotland) | section 177 |
| acts restricted by copyright | section 16(1) |
| adaptation | section 21(3) |
| archivist (in sections 37 to 43) | section 37(6) |
| article (in a periodical) | section 178 |
| artistic work | section 4(1) |
| assignment (in Scotland) | section 177 |
| author | sections 9 and 10(3) |
| broadcast (and related expressions) | section 6 |
| building | section 4(2) |
| business | section 178 |
| cable programme, cable programme service (and related expressions) | section 7 |
| collective work | section 178 |
| commencement (in Schedule 1) | paragraph 1(2) of that Schedule |
| commercial publication | section 175 |
| computer-generated | section 178 |
| copy and copying | section 17 |
| copyright (generally) | section 1 |
| copyright (in Schedule 1) | paragraph 2(2) of that Schedule |
| copyright owner | sections 101(2) and 173 |
| Copyright Tribunal | section 145 |
| copyright work | section 1(2) |
| costs (in Scotland) | section 177 |
| country | section 178 |
| [F1country of origin] | [F1section 15A.] |
| the Crown | section 178 |
| Crown copyright | sections 163(2) and 164(3) |
| [F2database] | [F2section 3A(1)] |
| defendant (in Scotland) | section 177 |
| delivery up (in Scotland) | section 177 |
| dramatic work | section 3(1) |
| educational establishment | sections 174(1) to (4) |
| electronic and electronic form | section 178 |
| employed, employee, employer and employment | section 178 |
| exclusive licence | section 92(1) |
| [F3EEA,][F4EEA national and EEA state] | [F4section 172A] |
| existing works (in Schedule 1) | paragraph 1(3) of that Schedule |
| facsimile copy | section 178 |
| film | [F5section 5B] |
| future copyright | section 91(2) |
| general licence (in sections 140 and 141) | section 140(7) |
| graphic work | section 4(2) |
| infringing copy | section 27 |
| injunction (in Scotland) | section 177 |
| interlocutory relief (in Scotland) | section 177 |
| international organisation | section 178 |
| issue of copies to the public | [F6section 18] |
| joint authorship (work of) | sections 10(1) and (2) |
| judicial proceedings | section 178 |
| [F7lawful user (in sections 50A to 50C)] | [F7section 50A(2).] |
| [F8lending] | [F8section 18A(2) to (6)] |
| librarian (in sections 37 to 43) | section 37(6) |
| licence (in sections 125 to 128) | section 124 |
| licence of copyright owner | sections 90(4), 91(3) and 173 |
| licensing body (in Chapter VII) | section 116(2) |
| licensing scheme (generally) | section 116(1) |
| licensing scheme (in sections 118 to 121) | section 117 |
| literary work | section 3(1) |
| made (in relation to a literary, dramatic or musical work) | section 3(2) |
| musical work | section 3(1) |
| [F9needletime] | [F9section 135A] |
| the new copyright provisions (in Schedule 1) | paragraph 1(1) of that Schedule |
| the 1911 Act (in Schedule 1) | paragraph 1(1) of that Schedule |
| the 1956 Act (in Schedule 1) | paragraph 1(1) of that Schedule |
| on behalf of (in relation to an educational establishment) | section 174(5) |
| [F2original (in relation to a database)] | [F2section 3A(2)] |
| Parliamentary copyright | sections 165(2) and (7) [F10166(6) [F11166A(3) and 166B(3)]] |
| parliamentary proceedings | section 178 |
| performance | section 19(2) |
| photograph | section 4(2) |
| plaintiff (in Scotland) | section 177 |
| prescribed conditions (in sections 38 to 43) | section 37(1)(b) |
| prescribed library or archive (in sections 38 to 43) | section 37(1)(a) |
| [F12producer (in relation to a sound recording or film] | [F12section 178.] |
| programme (in the context of broadcasting) | section 6(3) |
| prospective owner (of copyright) | section 91(2) |
| [F13public library] | [F13section 178.] |
| publication and related expressions | section 175 |
| published edition (in the context of copyright in the typographical arrangement) | section 8 |
| pupil | section 174(5) |
| rental | [F14section18A(2) to (6)] |
| [F8rental right] | [F8section 178.] |
| reprographic copies and repographic copying | section 178 |
| reprographic process | section 178 |
| sculpture | section 4(2) |
| signed | section 176 |
| sound recording | [F15sections 5A and 135A] |
| sufficient acknowledgement | section 178 |
| sufficient disclaimer | section 178 |
| teacher | section 174(5) |
| telecommunications system | section 178 |
| [F9terms of payment] | [F9section 135A] |
| typeface | section 178 |
| unauthorised (as regards things done in relation to a work) | section 178 |
| unknown (in relation to the author of a work) | section 9(5) |
| unknown authorship (work of) | section 9(4) |
| wireless telegraphy | section 178 |
| work (in Schedule 1) | paragraph 2(1) of that Schedule |
| work of more than one author (in Chapter VII) | section 116(4) |
| writing and written | section 178 |
Textual Amendments
F1Words in s. 179 inserted (1.1.1996) by S.I. 1995/3297, reg. 8(2) (with Pt. III)
F2Words in s. 179 inserted (1.1.1998) by S.I. 1997/3032, reg. 11 (with Pt. IV)
F3Words in s. 179 inserted (1.12.1996) by S.I. 1996/2967, reg. 9(6)(a) (with Pt. III)
F4Words in s. 179 inserted (1.1.1996) by S.I. 1995/3297, reg. 11(2) (with Pt. III)
F5Words in s. 179 substituted (1.1.1996) by S.I. 1995/3297, reg. 9(5)(a) (with Pt. III)
F6Words in s. 179 inserted (1.12.1996) by S.I. 1996/2967, reg. 9(6)(b) (with Pt. III)
F7Words in s. 179 inserted (1.1.1993) by S.I. 1992/3233, reg. 9
F8Words in s. 179 inserted (1.12.1996) by S.I. 1996/2967, reg. 10(4) (with Pt. III)
F9Words inserted by Broadcasting Act 1990 (c.42, SIF 96), s. 175(3)
F10Words in s. 179 substituted (6.5.1999) by 1998 c. 46, s. 125(1), Sch. 8 para. 25(8); S.I. 1998/3178, art. 2(2), Sch. 3
F11Words in s. 179 substituted (2.12.1999) by 1998 c. 47, s. 99, Sch. 13 para. 8(8) (with s. 95); S.I. 1999/3209, art. 2, Sch.
F12Words in s. 179 inserted (1.12.1996 with effect in relation to films made on or after 1.7.1994) by S.I. 1996/2967, regs. 18(6), 36 (with Pt. III)
F13Words in s. 179 inserted (1.12.1996) by S.I. 1996/2967, reg. 11(6) (with Pt. III)
F14Words in s. 179 substituted (1.12.1996) by S.I. 1996/2967, reg. 10(4) (with Pt. III)
F15Words in s. 179 substituted (1.1.1996) by S.I. 1995/3297, reg. 9(5)(b) (with Pt. III)
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1Ss. 161, 162, 171(1)(3), 172-179 applied (1.12.1996) by S.I. 1996/2967, reg. 17(4) (with Pt. III)
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